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#OI2Dublin – Interview with Dublin City Council’s Peter Finnegan (video) News
20.05.2013 Dublin City Council’s Peter Finnegan says the forthcoming Digital Dublin roadmap will position the city as a world leader in smart city technologies and could make the capital...Categories: R&D, Mobility, Mobile, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green Computing, Energy, Digital Business -
#OI2Dublin – Intel’s Martin Curley: we will need two Earths to support human life (video) News
20.05.2013 Intel vice-president and director of Intel Labs Europe Martin Curley warned that at the present rate of consumption we will soon need two Earths to sustain human life. For this... -
Google and Cisco take joint lead in Greenpeace green IT rankings News
24.04.2013 Cisco and Google have both earned the top spot in the latest Cool IT Leaderboard from Greenpeace that ranks 21 global IT and telecom giants based on the innovative steps they...Categories: Consumer Tech, Energy, Green, Green Computing, Green Tech, Renewable Energy, Search Engines -
Clean-tech forum in Dublin explores ‘green’ business opportunities News
22.04.2013 An international forum is today being hosted in Dublin to focus on clean-tech opportunities in cities across Europe and to showcase new innovations from Irish companies.Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Government, Energy, Economy -
DIT and RED-T take part in €6m pan-European solar farm R&D project News
23.04.2013 DIT has joined forces with Dublin renewable energy company RED-T to embark on a three-year €6m European research project on solar energy involving 12 companies across Europe....Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Funding, Energy -
Seven Irish companies make the Red Herring 100 list of European tech firms News
11.04.2013 Seven Irish companies have made this year’s Red Herring 100 list of up-and-coming private European tech firms. This achievement shows that a small country like Ireland is... -
A walk ‘inside’ the cloud - Microsoft’s Dublin data centre News
02.04.2013 In 1985, long before ownership of personal computers was commonplace, a young American software company called Microsoft set up a manufacturing operation in Dublin, where... -
Can we make computing greener? (Infographic) News
12.03.2013 Workers can not only make computing greener, but they can do so quite easily by modifying how they use the hardware at the office, a new infographic reveals with some surprising... -
Economic impact of the ‘Internet of Everything’ will be US$14trn – Cisco’s Chambers News
19.02.2013 The potential economic impact of the ‘Internet of Everything’ economy is US$14trn for global private-sector businesses in the next 10 years, Cisco CEO and chairman John Chambers... -
The year in cloud - how Ireland lay the building blocks for the cloud economy News
29.12.2012 The year 2012 was a year of advancement for cloud computing on so many levels. As well as companies like Google and Microsoft revealing new cloud-based services, it was a year...Tags: Denis O'Brien, Richard Bruton, UCC, Dropbox, Martin Murphy, DCU, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing, HP, Education, Google, Microsoft -
The year in clean tech – green data centres, tidal farms and energy trading News
28.12.2012 From Greenpeace storming Apple’s California headquarters in May to new Irish ventures making headway in the energy-efficiency space and Ireland’s first electricity link with...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy, Data Centre -
SolarPrint raises €1m to develop printed energy technology News
06.12.2012 Dublin start-up SolarPrint has raised €1m in funding to develop its printed solar technology that converts light from any source into energy. -
Galway smart metering firm Meterlogix to create 12 new jobs News
10.12.2012 Meterlogix, an energy monitoring and management start-up, is to create 12 new jobs in the next two years, the company has revealed.Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Hardware, Green Tech, Green Computing, Engineering, Energy -
Mainstream Renewables to roll out Windows 8 across global operations News
05.12.2012 Renewable energy firm Mainstream Renewables, which has thousands of megawatts of wind and solar power projects going into construction in Ireland, South Africa, Chile and...Categories: Software, Operating Systems, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Hardware, Green Computing, Green, CIO -
Leaders to talk fostering and financing innovation at Green Growth Forum in January News
19.11.2012 Hosted by Silicon Republic and the Green IFSC, The Green Growth Forum on 25 January will bring together international experts and Ireland’s leaders in green finance, technology,... -
Catagen and Wattics win top awards at all-island Seedcorn Business Competition News
29.11.2012 Catagen and Wattics have been named the Best High Growth company and the Best Emerging company at the InterTradeIreland 10th annual all-island Seedcorn Business competition. -
Irish Govt injects €5m into IC4 cloud computing research centre at DCU News
26.11.2012 With the intention of turning ideas into new start-ups and jobs, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton, TD, has unveiled the new €5m Irish Centre...Categories: R&D, Investments, Internet, Green Computing, Funding, Enterprise Applications, Digital Business, CIO -
Dublin City is planning a digital master plan – big reveal in June 2013 News
26.11.2012 Dublin’s digital masterplan to develop the city as a centre of digital excellence will be unveiled in June 2013, the city’s Lord Mayor Mr Naoise Ó Muirí said today. He said the... -
Wipro takes lead in Greenpeace green electronics listing, followed by HP News
20.11.2012 Indian tech company Wipro has taken the top spot in the latest green electronics listing from Greenpeace in which 16 global IT companies have been ranked by the campaign group...Categories: Software, Mobile, IT Organisation, Hardware, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Global CIO, ERP & Supply Chain Management, Energy, Consumer Tech -
IDA Ireland’s Pat Howlin: building a cloud ecosystem (video) News
09.11.2012 IDA Ireland’s senior vice-president in charge of ICT Pat Howlin says Ireland is building a considerable ecosystem around the cloud in order to be in an unassailable position to...Tags: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Infrastructure, Data centres, Energy, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, EMC, HP, Intel, Apple, IDA Ireland